Patrick Süskind Quotes

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• Bathed in sweat and trembling with agitation, no, not with agitation, but with fear, for he finally admitted it to himself: it was naked fear…
• There comes a time in every man's life when he needs his own toilet.
• As long as I don't have an idea, I won't write anything.
• He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.
• Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your…
• Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off,…
• ...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's…
• No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon…
• With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a…
• How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.
• And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed…
• He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.
• He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the…
• He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.
• She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky.
• ...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.
• When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the…
• He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.
• People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.
• He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

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